On Dec. 2, 2015, Adamo’s president and chief executive officer, John T. Adamo, Jr., was killed in an accident at the Muskingum River Plant near Beverly, Ohio, and another worker was seriously hurt, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Adamo Jr. was 57 at the time, according to his obituary.
Like Killen, the Muskingum plant accident also happened at 8:30 a.m., online federal records show.
Adamo and another worker were injured during the demolition of a coal conveyor system that spanned the Muskingum River.
“During the pre-burn of a support tower, the tower collapsed whereby the coal conveyor hung from eight 2-inch cables that were attached to concrete buttresses at the cables’ ends. The collapsing tower caused the second tower to collapse and the conveyor fell into the river,” OSHA officials wrote in an Accident Investigative Summary.
Demolition company working on collapsed Adams Co. power plant also involved in fatal 2015 accident
The same company tasked with demolishing the Killen Generating Station in Manchester when it partially collapsed was also involved in a 2015 accident that left its CEO dead.
Posted at 5:37 PM, Dec 09, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-10 09:10:51-05
The demolition contractor in charge of bringing down the Killen Generating Station in Adams County was also involved in a fatal industrial accident at another Ohio power plant in 2015.
Kingfisher Development LLC, a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Commercial Liability Partners (CLP), in 2019 hired Adamo Demolition Co. out of Detroit to demolish the former coal-burning power plant near Manchester, Ohio. Search and rescue crews believe five Adamo workers were inside a building at the site when it came down around them unexpectedly Wednesday morning, according to Adams County Sheriff Kimmy Rogers.